Upgrade to Tenable Vulnerability Management

In Nessus Professional (version 7.1 and later) and Tenable Nessus Manager (version 8.2 and later), you can use the upgrade assistant to migrate data from a Tenable Nessus deployment to a Tenable Vulnerability Management deployment.

Before You Begin

• Back up Nessus.
• Review the upgrade considerations and requirements, as described in Getting Started with Tenable Nessus Upgrade Assistant.
• If Tenable Nessus is currently linked to Tenable Security Center:
  1. In Tenable Security Center, delete Nessus from Tenable Security Center.
  2. In Tenable Nessus, unlink Nessus.
• In Tenable Vulnerability Management, generate API keys to use during the upgrade, as described in the Tenable Vulnerability Management User Guide.

To use the upgrade assistant:

1. As an administrator, log in to Tenable Nessus.
2. In the top navigation bar, click Settings.

3. In the left navigation bar, click Upgrade Assistant.

4. Choose one of the following options:

   • If you already have a Tenable Vulnerability Management account, click Upgrade Now.

   • If you do not have a Tenable Vulnerability Management account, click Sign Up First and complete the remaining prompts.
5. Type an Access Key and API Secret Key, the API keys generated by Tenable Vulnerability Management.
6. Type the Tenable.io Domain name, which is the email domain of the user you registered for Tenable Vulnerability Management with.
7. Type a Nessus Identifier, a label to identify the instance of Nessus that you are upgrading. This identifier is used to represent migrated scanner's configuration in Tenable Vulnerability Management.

8. Click Upgrade.

   The Confirm Upgrade dialog box appears.

9. Read the upgrade warning, then click Continue.

   Your data upgrades from Tenable Nessus to Tenable Vulnerability Management, which may take several minutes.

   When the upgrade is complete, the Upgrade Complete screen appears.

10. Click Continue to Tenable.io.

Note: After the upgrade assistant completes, you can find a copy of the upgrade log in your local directory.

11. When the upgrade assistant completes, review the migrated data.

What to Do Next

• Continue with Extended Migration.
• Learn more about Tenable Vulnerability Management: /vulnerability-management.